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Safety advocates gathered Thursday in Portland to voice concern about a growing danger: driving while distracted. In Oregon over the past five years,…

SALEM, Ore. (AP) – Plastic straws could be off the menu under a measure making its way through the Oregon Legislature. The Oregon Senate voted…

The Oregon Department of Human Services announced several steps Thursday to ensure the safety of more than 80 children and youth in out-of-state…

Sens. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and Cory Gardner (R-CO) led a bipartisan group of senators in introducing legislation Thursday to ensure that legal…

Think Wild, a Bend-area wildlife rescue and rehabilitator, is currently undergoing some rehab of its own, getting to work upgrading its facility and…

Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., announced Thursday that the Food and Drug Administration is implementing the direction he successfully included in the…

Happy Thursday evening, everyone! Winds stay breezy at times tonight gusting around 20 miles per hour. We have the slight chance for showers on the…

SALEM, Ore. (AP) – The U.S. Attorney’s office in Oregon said a Canadian man was charged Thursday with possession with intent to…

SALEM, Ore. (AP) – Federal prosecutors say they grew marijuana in Oregon, transported it to Texas and Virginia, and received cash payments…

The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Oregon announced Thursday that it has partnered with the Ford Family Foundation to expand two proven…

A 50-foot-wide, 10-foot-deep hole opened up in a southern Oregon coastal highway late Wednesday night — and two cars plunged into it, with one…

SALEM, Ore. (AP) – Hundreds of proposed bills have met their demise as Oregon lawmakers turn their attention to other legislative priorities.…

Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Senator Ben Cardin, D-Md., introduced legislation Thursday to allow the IRS to require…

The National Association of Letter Carriers will conduct its 27 th annual national food drive on Saturday, May 11, benefiting NeighborImpact in…

Starting this summer, Oregon State University-Cascades will host high school students on the Bend campus in August for an overnight Summer Academy,…

Leave-No-Trace practices. Sustainable tourism. A focus on community. F or two years, Visit Bend has been weaving these values into everything from…

Varying degrees of flooding have occurred in numerous portions of the Lower Deschutes and John Day rivers over the past several days, the Bureau of…

The Oregon Department of Human Services announced Wednesday the development of a plan to return to Oregon dozens of foster youth who are being served…

REDMOND, Wash. (AP) – Authorities say a 20-month-old boy survived a six-story fall from a suburban Seattle apartment window after the toddler…

When it comes to recognition of key community members, few are more deserving than 9-1-1 operators in Oregon. Each second week of April, this year…